Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 280 -  The Power of Words: JFK and the Fight for Equality.   This episode continues an examination of some of the outstanding addresses given by great Americans - in this case Presidents of the Un...

This podcast episode deals with President Kennedy’s 1960 Inaugural address.  On January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), a Democrat from Massachusetts, was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States. Taking office at...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 278 - Whitman on Democracy - and This is the final episode - for now - about Walt Whitman.Walt Whitman wrote many lengthy poems about democracy - in fact I found a great poem about Democracy...

It is generally agreed that O Captain, My Captain is Walt Whitman’s masterpiece.  But to understand this poem you need to look at the connections between Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Whitman’s love, Peter Doyle.

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 276 - Beat! Beat! Drums!After three episodes on President Abraham Lincoln, I would like to delve into arguably America’s greatest poet - a man whose entire outlook on life was intertwined with this ...